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Sun 13 May 2007 16:36

mot question - puggered

i have a hole in the side of backbox (about the size of a one pence coin), if i block/fill this hole in with something like exhaust assy paste, will it still cause my car to fail its mot?

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Sun 13 May 2007 16:44

mot question - graham woods

Hi there, Puggered, As long as you seal it properly, and it is not blowing, then it should not fail on that point, Cheers, Graham.

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Sun 13 May 2007 17:03

mot question - Dynamic Dave

All you need to know is here:-

www.motuk.co.uk/manual_710.htm

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Sun 13 May 2007 23:37

mot question - DP

I got a Rover 200 through that I was selling on once with a beer can with the ends cut off and split down one side, popped around the exhaust, gun gummed, and then U-clamped at either end. It wasn't blowing, and system wasn't insecure, hence a pass. The tester had a good chuckle at it actually. As he said, probably a better repair than one of those wrap around bandage kits.

I saw the guy I sold it to a year or so later, and he reckoned it hadn't gone.

This was a 1p sized hole in a pipe rather than a silencer. Test only looks at the security of the system, and for the presence of leaks.

Cheers
DP

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Mon 14 May 2007 08:21

mot question - L'escargot

My Focus passed with a bigger hole than that because it was only in the outer skin of a double-skinned silencer.
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L\'escargot.

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